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This is a magnesium cast front subframe of a particularly gorgeous car. +1 internets for the person who can guess the car.
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There is a distinct desire to pour water on it and let chemistry happen.
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EDIT: Great... Kinja has fucking broke hashtags... How will we be hash tag snarky now?
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Kinja just hates you for saying mean stuff about Alfa 33 Stradale bits.
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Let me guess ... will it be worse than pouring Gallium over Audi's spaceframes?
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I would have said the same thing about a BMW N52 outer block. Because it's also magnesium.
Also, chemistry. So the conclusion is that Kinja hates chemistry.
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Gallium induces extra brittleness in aluminum, to my understanding. It affects the crystalline structure.
Magnesium (and other group 2 elements besides beryllium) react with water to produce either the metal's hydroxide or oxide, and hydrogen gas. This hydrogen production is summarized as "This metal burns in water"
Group 1 metals have a similar property.
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I'd expect the spaceframe to become spongy and very porose, almost falling apart due to its own weight.
Magnesium burning I like, it's so purrrdy .